ODYSSEY: EXPLORATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND THE ARTS - VOL.2, NO.1 (DECEMBER, 1959)
Chicago: S.i., 1959. First Edition. Item #6758
Slim octavo (22cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 40,[2]pp. With a holograph notation by editor R.R. Cuscaden on the title leaf, which corresponds to a brief holograph correction in text: "Note p.5 / We need poems!! / R.R.C." Modest external wear, subtle toning and dust-soil to wrappers, with tanning to text, a brief editorial correction to Bukowski's poem on p.20, and some shallow nicks to right edge of terminal leaf; Very Good+. Contains the first appearance of two Bukowski poems – "I Live Too Near The Slaughterhouse" and "When Hugo Wolf Went Mad" (the latter published later that year in EPOS). Missed by Dorbin.
Price: $150.00